Casa Makana

The rental property is identified as Gg. Wayang No. 23, Kerobokan, North Kuta, Badung. Street mapping places Gang Wayang in Kerobokan Kelod, within the residential area commonly called Umalas. That is a more practical location description than branding it as Canggu or Seminyak. These neighbourhoods are nearby destinations rather than interchangeable addresses. An owner who spends time working at home, cooking and using a private pool may welcome the less resort-like setting. Someone who expects to walk to the beach every morning should assess it differently. The guest manager's description says cafés and shops are reached by vehicle, so no beach-walk promise is warranted.

The development's small size is firmly stated by the company: two villas, both with two bedrooms and separate pools. There is a naming wrinkle. Makana is the developer's collective project name, while Casa Makana is also the name used for an individual rental property. The other home is marketed to guests as Casa Mahina. In a company social post, O’HANA says it sold Mahina after a period of renting both houses and retained Makana as part of its own rental portfolio. That statement explains the portfolio history more clearly than the sold-out label alone. It does not establish today's registered owner of either house or the seller behind a later resale advertisement.

For scale, O’HANA quotes 120 square metres of building area and 100 square metres of land for each villa. The Casa Makana accommodation listing also gives 120 square metres, alongside two bedrooms and two bathrooms. A buyer should resist treating the figure as net enclosed floor space: the developer does not provide a measured internal-area schedule showing how roof, terrace and other elements have been counted. Nor should the plot size suggest a large landscaped garden. A home with a pool on a compact site needs its outdoor circulation, service access and privacy arranged carefully. These proportions can work well for a couple or two pairs of guests, but the actual usability is better understood on a visit than in a floor-area headline.

The most distinctive part of the design is the combination of a rooftop terrace and private swimming pool. The roof gives occupants a separate place to sit above the small courtyard, while the pool offers private outdoor use at ground level. The operating listing describes a kitchen, seating areas, air-conditioning and outdoor space, rather than relying only on architectural concept material. A guest may value these choices because the entire home can be booked without sharing facilities. An owner should also think about how they age: exterior finishes, pool equipment, drainage and the roof's waterproofing all require attention under tropical conditions. Actual maintenance history and a current inventory were not publicly supplied.

Not every feature on the developer's project page can be taken literally. Alongside relevant references to the two-bedroom villas, that page contains copied passages naming Bingin and Solaya, another project in the same portfolio. It also mentions rooftop saunas and ice baths within broadly repeated marketing sections. Those details may be part of the company's more recent design vocabulary, but they cannot safely be added to Casa Makana's verified specification. The credible common ground between the project catalogue and guest listings is narrower: two bedrooms, a private pool, a roof terrace and a functioning residential layout. Even items as ordinary as furniture, appliances and parking arrangements must be attached to the particular resale contract.

O’HANA's chronology shows a May 2024 start and January 2025 completion for Makana. The company now describes having completed two developments in Umalas, and the Makana home has appeared on Booking.com, Airbnb and Agoda as guest accommodation. Taken together, these sources support a completed, operating building rather than a construction-stage proposal. They do not tell us the handover date under each original purchase arrangement, or prove that the building has the applicable approvals. In Indonesia, a building approval known as PBG and the suitability-for-use certificate known as SLF are separate matters. We did not examine either project-specific document, and a hotel listing cannot stand in for them.

There is a concrete resale price to investigate. A DDA Real Estate advertisement for Casa Makana describes a two-bedroom villa with 120 square metres of building area, a 101-square-metre plot, a 12-square-metre pool and an asking price of USD 179,000. One portal says the record was updated in February 2026; a syndicated version on another portal shows an update in September 2026. These are not independently agreed valuations or proof of active inventory. Several websites display essentially the same advertisement, so counting them as separate seller confirmations would create false confidence. The one-square-metre difference from O’HANA's published land figure also needs a parcel document, not an assumption that one source must be correct.

The listing's location metadata creates a further caution. Realting identifies Jalan Tegal Cupak, while a version carried by realestate.com.au displays Gg. Barata No. 64. Neither matches the complete Gg. Wayang No. 23 accommodation address for the named operating Casa Makana. The streets may reflect imperfect syndication or an agency's generic location marker, but we cannot resolve the discrepancy by guesswork. An interested purchaser would need the seller to connect the proposed deal to the specific villa, surveyed land plot and current lease holder. Until that happens, the advertisement is useful evidence of a marketed offer under the name, not a verified offer for the precise guest house.

Land tenure is the decisive financial variable. O’HANA's FAQ presents the homes as leasehold arrangements, with a broad 25–30-year range and extension options. The resale advert instead states 24 years, without saying whether that is the initial term or time remaining in 2026. A contractual land lease is not the same as a registered Indonesian land title. Hak Milik denotes ownership of land and cannot simply be conveyed directly to a foreign individual. Other regulated rights, including Hak Pakai, involve their own conditions, but neither term can be attached to Casa Makana without a relevant document. The lease's parties, commencement date, expiry, assignment rules, landlord authority and renewal mechanism will determine what a new buyer actually receives.

Rental operation offers a useful test of the product, but no shortcut to estimating its net return. Booking.com identifies Bali Management Villas as the management company behind the accommodation listing. O’HANA has also discussed running villas through its own rental operation. Both statements can be true at different times or under separate service arrangements. Neither gives a new owner an automatically transferable management contract. A serious income assessment needs actual receipts, distribution-platform charges, management commission, staff and cleaning expenses, pool care, utilities, insurance, local taxes and money reserved for maintenance. Ownership costs continue even when a villa has no guests, and an expired lease term cannot be ignored when valuing future cash flow.

The developer has claimed that its two-villa rental experiment produced 33 five-star Airbnb reviews and occupancy above 85% over eight months. It is an account of the company's activity, not audited performance for a new owner of Casa Makana. The project's promotional return tables are no more reliable as a buying forecast, particularly because the page contains evident template material. A purchaser should not confuse past booking attention with an income guarantee. The more defensible advantage of this villa is the ability to inspect an existing home, review its physical condition and ask for operational records. The corresponding risk is that the buyer may acquire only a limited remaining lease, with obligations that are far less visible than the pool or terrace. Casa Makana is an identifiable, small Umalas property; whether it is an attractive purchase remains a question of the actual contract and the actual house.